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Forbes Accused of Link Spam, Begin Deleting All The Links

Following the JC Penny paid links story from last weekend. Forbes on Monday started to delete the links from their site. We've been watching these links come down, but they seem to have forgotten one page. See the bottom right of this page for paid links to Netsuite, AppRiver, Bluepay, SquareSpace and others, all with […]

Following the JC Penny paid links story from last weekend. Forbes on Monday started to delete the links from their site. We've been watching these links come down, but they seem to have forgotten one page. See the bottom right of this page for paid links to Netsuite, AppRiver, Bluepay, SquareSpace and others, all with very nice descriptive keywords like "ecommerce," "Create a Website," etc. Previous links to Siemens and AT&T were prevalent, and those links still appear on eWeek and CIO Magazine.

As Barry Schwartz noticed today, Forbes received and posted a notice from Google "encouraging" Forbes to remove the links "that could be intended to manipulate PageRank."

Denis Pinsky, Forbes Digital Marketing Manager, thinking that Forbes had now removed the links (oops), played dumb: "Can someone help figure out what Links are in violation?"

[tags]pagerank,forbes,link spam,paid links,search results[/tags]

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